How to use 2500 free animations from Mixamo website on Rig in Blender

Step 1- Download and extract the model

Step 2- Download the animation from Mixamo website

Now we want to use ready and free animations of the Mixamo site. Open the Mixamo website. You must log in to the site. If you don't have an Adobe account, create one. Click on continue. Enter your password and click continue. on the left side, you can see motion-captured animations. Free high-quality animations that you can use in your project.

There are about 50 animations per page and there are about 50 pages, which is about 2500 free animations. Whichever you like you can download.

Search for the word fight from the search bar. Click on one of the animations. You can see its preview on the right side. In the overdrive section, you can change the speed of the animation. In the character arm space section, you can also increase the distance between the hands and the character's body. I leave these values on default.

Click on the download option. Be sure to select fbx binary in the format section. And choose without skin from the skin section. Because we only need the animation. And finally, click on the download option and wait for our animation to be downloaded.

Step 3- Install the character CC-IC tools on blender

Now we have to install an addon on Blender to be able to use this animation. Click on this link to open the github site and download the zip file.

Open blender. From the Edit menu, select the preferences option. Click on the addon. click on Install. Go to the location of the downloaded file and select it and click on install addon. If you have already installed this addon, it will not be activated automatically. You should search "ic" from the search box And tick the character cc/ic tools option and save the preferences. Also, search for rigify and activate it on blender and save it. Close the window.

Step 4- import the animation and apply it to character

Open Cc, ic pipeline panel from the right side, and click on the import animation option. Go to the storage location of the downloaded animation from the Mixamo site and select the .fbx file and click on import animation.

A skeleton with animation appears. If I move the cti, you can see the animation. I want to connect this animation to the character. Click on the rig controls to select them. in the cc,ic pipeline panel and From the rig and animation section, find the fist fight B animation. it is under the source armature section. Select it. Also, select the animation from the box below it. And click on preview retarget option.

Now our character also moves with the skeleton. If you are satisfied with the result, hit the bake retarget option. After that, you can safely delete the skeleton because we don't need it anymore.

You can also hide the rig and see the animation better. so, we can use the 2500 ready-made animations on the Mixamo site on the character. I hope you liked this tutorial.